What is the best Ingrid Bergman performance?
Hollywood golden age icon, Hitchcock muse, Rossellini collaborator — her career defied convention and spanned continents. Which performance represents her at her peak?
Casablanca
A 1942 WWII classic in which Bergman's luminous portrayal of a woman torn between love and duty opposite Humphrey Bogart is universally cited as one of cinema's greatest performances.
Gaslight
A 1944 psychological thriller in which Bergman won her first Academy Award playing a woman manipulated into doubting her own sanity by her sinister husband.
Notorious
A 1946 Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece in which Bergman plays a woman recruited by the US government to spy on Nazis while falling for her handler played by Cary Grant.
Anastasia
A 1956 drama in which Bergman won her second Academy Award as a woman who may or may not be the surviving Russian princess, marking her triumphant Hollywood comeback.
Autumn Sonata
A 1978 Ingmar Bergman drama in which Ingrid Bergman plays a celebrated concert pianist confronting her failures as a mother opposite Liv Ullmann, considered her finest late-career work.
Murder on the Orient Express
A 1974 mystery in which Bergman won her third Academy Award (Best Supporting Actress) for a memorable role among Poirot's star-studded suspects.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
A 1943 Hemingway adaptation in which Bergman earned her first Oscar nomination playing a young Spanish woman recovering from trauma during the Civil War, opposite Gary Cooper.
Spellbound
A 1945 Alfred Hitchcock psychological thriller in which Bergman plays a psychiatrist who falls in love with an amnesiac patient suspected of murder.
Joan of Arc
A 1948 epic in which Bergman brings fierce conviction and spiritual intensity to the role of French martyr Joan of Arc, a childhood dream role.
The Bells of St. Mary's
A 1945 film in which Bergman earned another Oscar nomination playing a warm and spirited nun who clashes charmingly with Bing Crosby's priest.
Intermezzo
A 1939 romantic drama that made Bergman an overnight Hollywood star, playing a young pianist who falls in love with a famous married violinist.
Stromboli
A 1950 Roberto Rossellini film in which Bergman plays a displaced woman trapped on a volcanic island, marking her bold artistic pivot away from Hollywood.
Journey to Italy
A 1954 Roberto Rossellini drama about a crumbling marriage explored through Naples, now regarded as one of the most important films in European art cinema.
Europa '51
A 1952 Roberto Rossellini film about a bourgeois woman who, after her son's death, abandons her privileged life to help the poor, with a spiritually devastating performance.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A 1941 horror drama in which Bergman insisted on playing the barmaid victim, delivering a bold, sensual performance that challenged audience expectations.
A Woman Called Golda
A 1982 TV film in which Bergman's final screen role earned her a posthumous Emmy Award as she masterfully embodies Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.
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